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Unique Device Identifier (UDI-DI) Communication Change Process Report
The UDI-DI Change Communication Process Work Group, a part of AHRMM's Learning UDI Community (LUC), recently released a report analyzing current communication processes and their implications on all stakeholders related to changes to the UDI-DI. Gain a clear understanding of how these changes are documented in affected software systems, identify gaps between current and desired states, and develop recommended practices to improve the process for all stakeholders.
Diversity and Inclusion in Leadership and Governance
This toolkit focuses on developing diversity and inclusion leadership strategies at the board level. It also encourages significant governance changes throughout health care organizations.
Assuring Patient Safety through Capture and Management of Product Attributes
Supply chain attributes inform critical supply availability and alignment with internal and external needs, integral to meeting pressures to deliver safe care.
Patient Safety Initiative FAQ
Hospitals and health systems have shared with AHA their passion to work together to reinforce and accelerate our field’s patient safety efforts. As a result, AHA is launching a national initiative to reaffirm hospital and health system leadership and commitment to patient safety.
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital - Making HAI Prevention ‘Everyone’s Job’
Trusted collaboration among all stakeholders, coupled with a clear consensus for keeping health care teams and patients safe, drive the infection prevention efforts at Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital: Multidisciplinary Team Leads Practice Change to Prevent Infections
In 2021, the Infection Prevention and Transplant Infectious Diseases teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago observed a significant increase in the number of pulmonary infections caused by Mycobaterium abscessus.
Advocate Condell Hospital: Improving Process to Improve Infection Prevention and Control
To reduce infection rates more effectively, successful hospitals and health systems are focusing on the fundamentals. For Advocate Condell Hospital, the focus is on process improvements.
MUSC Health: Standardizing Processes —Small Steps Are Key to Preventing SSIs
One Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is one too many for the team at MUSC Health in Charleston, South Carolina. MUSC’s mission is “Do no harm and change what’s possible”; MUSC knows that decreasing SSIs is “an absolute change that IS possible.”
Infection Prevention and Control Success Stories
Hospitals across the field look for practical infection prevention solutions. Advocate Condell Hospital focused on process and reduced HAI rates.
AHA Disparities Toolkit
The Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.